Am 2019-05-27 17:05, schrieb Conrad Meyer:
Hi Rainier,
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:47 AM <rai...@ultra-secure.de> wrote:
I have a 32bit FreeBSD 6 binary that I'll need for a bit until the
department who is technically responsible for the service gets around
redoing that service.
Even if this proposal is approved, it would only affect 13+. You
could still run your FreeBSD 6 binary in a 32-bit 12 VM in a 13+
Bhyve. But do consider lighting a fire under whatever department
thinks it's ok to deploy like that :-).
Take care,
Conrad
I thought so, too.
I don't really want to run the abandonware of a RADIUS-server any longer
than necessary (as absurd as that sounds).
It's also running a recursive nameserver (previously also authoritative)
that is still hard-coded in CPE and computers behind firewalls.
I first wanted to virtualize it (it's not a big problem) - but this way
the problem is just dragged out: "But it still works, does it and we
have no time".
Everybody now knows that the clock is ticking, literally.
Oh, I also remember George Neville-Neil talking about a - what - FreeBSD
4 binary that a certain search-engine had lost the sources for and was
running on FreeBSD 7 with compat4.
(We also have a client who literally begged us to leave a decade-old
Solaris box running through 2019 and half of 2020 so they could continue
to do their bookkeeping on a home-grown java-app that I suspect they,
too have lost the sources to...). It's running jdk15 and getting that
thing to run under anything semi-decent doesn't seem to have worked-out
too well.
So, people pray for the best and don't prepare for the worst.
Other stuff I can think of:
- very old Netbackup-Clients (like 5-series), though I doubt they still
work on recent releases, because 7.71 (last official version and
intended for FreeBSD 11) stopped working on FreeBSD12, sadly)
- certain pre-compiled VMWare Tools Modules? Pre open-source-tools (I
can never make up my mind if it's VMWare-open-Tools or Open-VMWare-Tools
or something different)
What ever people do with COMPAT4-9 - it's bordering the pathological.
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